From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,npache@redhat.com,akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: [to-be-updated] mm-migrate-exclude-hugetlb-folios-from-mthp_stat_nr_anon-accounting.patch removed from -mm tree
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:23:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260718012335.EDDF11F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org> (raw)
The quilt patch titled
Subject: mm/migrate: exclude hugetlb folios from MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON accounting
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
mm-migrate-exclude-hugetlb-folios-from-mthp_stat_nr_anon-accounting.patch
This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued
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From: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Subject: mm/migrate: exclude hugetlb folios from MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON accounting
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 11:25:47 -0600
__folio_migrate_mapping() increments MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON for the destination
folio when `folio_test_anon(folio) && folio_test_large(folio)` is true.
However, hugetlb folios satisfy both conditions despite having a
completely separate accounting system; they use hugetlb_add_anon_rmap()
which does not touch mTHP stats, and their free path also bypasses the
mTHP decrement in __free_pages_prepare().
This causes MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON to be incremented on each hugetlb migration
without a corresponding decrement, permanently inflating the nr_anon
counter.
Add a !folio_test_hugetlb() check to both places in
__folio_migrate_mapping() so that only actual mTHP folios are counted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702172548.37075-3-npache@redhat.com
Fixes: 5d65c8d758f2 ("mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size")
Co-developed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Nico Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul@sk.com>
Cc: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---
mm/migrate.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/mm/migrate.c~mm-migrate-exclude-hugetlb-folios-from-mthp_stat_nr_anon-accounting
+++ a/mm/migrate.c
@@ -590,7 +590,8 @@ static int __folio_migrate_mapping(struc
/* No turning back from here */
newfolio->index = folio->index;
newfolio->mapping = folio->mapping;
- if (folio_test_anon(folio) && folio_test_large(folio))
+ if (folio_test_anon(folio) && folio_test_large(folio) &&
+ !folio_test_hugetlb(folio))
mod_mthp_stat(folio_order(folio), MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON, 1);
if (folio_test_swapbacked(folio))
__folio_set_swapbacked(newfolio);
@@ -623,7 +624,8 @@ static int __folio_migrate_mapping(struc
*/
newfolio->index = folio->index;
newfolio->mapping = folio->mapping;
- if (folio_test_anon(folio) && folio_test_large(folio))
+ if (folio_test_anon(folio) && folio_test_large(folio) &&
+ !folio_test_hugetlb(folio))
mod_mthp_stat(folio_order(folio), MTHP_STAT_NR_ANON, 1);
folio_ref_add(newfolio, nr); /* add cache reference */
if (folio_test_swapbacked(folio))
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from npache@redhat.com are
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